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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 8, 2019Iredell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2019, 5:05 AM EDT for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2019, 5:05 AM EDT (09:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2019, 6:08 AM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Iredell County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 8, 3:32 AM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:32 AM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 4:12 AM EDT, 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 7, 11:46 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 8:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Catawba	110 min
Jun 7, 8:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cleveland	2 hr
Jun 7, 8:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Catawba	3 hr
Jun 7, 9:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	GSP	Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 18 more	72 hr
Jun 7, 9:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell	119 min
Jun 7, 10:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 7, 11:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell	3 hr
Jun 8, 1:18 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Iredell	117 min
Jun 8, 3:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Iredell	116 min
Jun 8, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson, Polk	50 min
Jun 8, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell, Polk, Rutherford, Yancey	44 min
Jun 8, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg, Union	47 min
Jun 8, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	29 min
Jun 8, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	42 min
Jun 8, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	52 min
Jun 8, 6:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, McDowell	3 hr
Jun 8, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell, Catawba	49 min
Jun 8, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	46 min
Jun 8, 7:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln	2 hr
Jun 7, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	41 min
Jun 7, 8:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	33 min
Jun 7, 9:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cherokee	2 hr
Jun 8, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	59 min
Jun 8, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Pickens	65 min
Jun 8, 3:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville	3 hr
Jun 8, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	46 min
Jun 8, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	41 min
Jun 8, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	47 min
Jun 8, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	51 min
Jun 8, 6:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville	112 min
Jun 8, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Stephens	54 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.